The Mirebalais and Lascahobas Training Centres

The experience of EFACAP*– a network of teacher training centres to which several primary schools are linked – is indicative of the ebband flow of the Haitian population after the earthquake. The Courier visited two training centers - Mirebalais and Lascahobas.

The Lascahobas centre’s director, Hope Saintil remembers how “many families flocked here. In our school alone, we received 76 new students. Most families have since returned to the capital after several months. Of that initial group, only 18 students remain.”

"The reason for the return to an already congested Port-au-Prince is undoubtedly the lack of jobs and the ability to earn a decent livelihood,"explains the director of elementary education, Francis Compere.

Hegel Goutier

* École Fondamentale d'Application - Centre d'Appui Pédagogique